I do not understand why this happened to me?
TeriaShae
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I had a VERY good two weeks. I lost 3.5 pounds and I was extremely happy. I decided to have a cheat meal which I did not log. It was pasta with breadsticks and salad. Water to drink.
I went from 151 to 163 just today!!
How did this happen? I lost 3.5 pounds only to gain 12 overnight??
I went from 151 to 163 just today!!
How did this happen? I lost 3.5 pounds only to gain 12 overnight??
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May be your scale broke down. 12 lbs. is way to much i have gained 6 lbs the most, but next day i am down 4 and 2 stay for a little while. i pee all night though. how tall are you?0
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I'm 5'7. I ate the meal at 6PM. It's currently 1AM and I have yet to void or anything. Water retention?0
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Sounds like extreme sodium overload + normal weight fluctuation. Drink some water and just get back to your regular calorie goal. It'll be fine.
Edit to add: Don't weigh yourself at 1am after an extravagant meal. Just get back to your plan and weigh at your normal time.0 -
I've had crazy fluctuations of 4-5 pounds from one day to the next but never anything close to 12 pounds. Always weigh yourself at the same time (first thing in the morning after you've done your morning duties is idea.) Don't upset yourself with a late night weigh in after a huge meal. A pint of fluid is a pound and if you've been drinking a lot of liquid, you could have extra "transient" weight there.
I'm not a nutritional expert in anyway, but I noticed you have high sodium counts on your diary. Sodium is not helping your cause ; ) Try to avoid processed or fast foods for a week and see if you notice a difference in your sodium levels and weight fluctuations. At the very least, a modest sodium intake will be better for your overall health.0 -
It will go.
I am sure you know that realistically, you cannot have possibly eaten enough to gain 12Ibs of genuine weight in that space of time.
Also, weighing yourself after eating and drinking ?? Why? You have the weight of all that food still in you.
Oh, and also suggest new batteries in your scale, in case. Or removing them and putting back in.0 -
That's an unusually large fluctuation. But the time span is far too short for it to be new body mass of any kind. So it has to be mostly water retention. Eating a lot more carbs than normal can do that temporarily. So can salt.0
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I definitely had a carb and sodium overload. But I was worried that 12 pounds ever after weighing with the food and liquids inside of me, isn't that unusually large amount of weight? Typically it's 5 pounds max. Replaced batteries just now. Same weight.0
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Don't weigh yourself for a day or two after a cheat meal. Your weight will come back down. Just give it time.
If your maintenance is 2k per day and you ate that plus 7,000 calories for that meal (way overestimating) then and only then would you see a true two lb gain. Just go back to normal and so will your weight. It just might take a week or two.0 -
How big was the bowl of pasta?0
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Definitely just discouraged this time with so much I put on after the cheat meal. I guess
I'm thinking maybe a cheat SNACK next time. I didn't know one meal would set me back so far. This is why I'm frustrated. /:
I am not weighing again until Monday.0 -
Pretty big, but honestly an average American dish.0
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My guess is, you were low on Glycogen from a low carb diet and lot's of cardio. When you ate the carbs, your muscles were replenished with Glycogen, which attaches itself to water molecules. Go back to your regular eating and exercise routine and it will go away.0
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maybe you weighed at a wrong time!!!!
well its ok just continue with what you do
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You didn't gain that much. It's likely the weight of the food, fluid retention, sodium, etc. Give it a couple of days. It'll be gone.0
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Are you sure your scale is working (and was workign the last weeks)? Even if you consumed 20 servings of pasta, still it is impossible to gain that much in a day.0
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I'm 5'7. I ate the meal at 6PM. It's currently 1AM and I have yet to void or anything. Water retention?
Water retention + food weight.0 -
It's not a real weight gain. Give it a few days, drink plenty of water, and don't stress.0
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Your weight will fluctuate immensely if you weigh yourself right after a cheat meal/day.
I had an entire XL Hawaiian pizza from Domino's before eating out at a brewery for my roommate's 21st birthday (I also had dessert). Long story short, I had a food baby that lasted well into the next day and ended up staying in bed due to the lack of energy lol.
Give yourself more time before weighing.0 -
It could be a number of different things. It could be the fact you weighed in right after eating that meal, the sodium combined with the water could easily amount to a 12 pound gain, but it's nothing that would stay with you. One cheat meal will never derail progress that bad. It'd take well over 30,000 calories to gain that much, and that's just not humanly possible, so you don't really need to stress the number you are seeing.
Also try weighing in less; avoid especially after 'free days'. When I am tracking my weigh-ins, I do it one to two times a month at most. Weight can fluctuate like crazy, so it's good to space it out to get a real steady count of progress on it.0 -
Well, first you're weighing your food. Second, you're going to be bloated as hell from all that salt. Give it a few days to digest and to get rid of the bloat. You'll be fine.0
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